Commentary to “Accuracy in reporting incontinence in adults with spina bifida: a pilot study”

Comprehending the true impact of incontinence on quality of life would be an invaluable tool in the pediatric urologist ’s toolkit when counseling patients and families on potential interventions and for stratifying severity of symptoms. Often the confluence of objectivity and subjectivity belies the “true” nature of something so personal as “bother.” Here, the authors attempted to determine how immediate r ecall of bother secondary to urinary or fecal incontinence in the spina bifida (SB) population compared to a daily diary chronicling episodes of incontinence1.
Source: Journal of Pediatric Urology - Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Source Type: research